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Urban Architecture

It's getting a bit crowded, isn't it? While the world’s population keeps growing (we passed seven billion earlier this year), the world itself clearly does not. That means less surface area for more men, which in turn means an increasing emphasis on hygiene and more expensive housing. We applaud the former, less so the latter.There are, however, solutions to the burgeoning spatial crisis -- at least four of them. AskMen is attending the C2-MTL creativity conference in Montreal, Canada, this week, which yesterday hosted a presentation by Dutch architect Winy Maas. Winy took us through four architecture techniques designed to elbow out some extra room in an increasingly crowded world, which we have now assembled into a handy instructional slideshow. So next time you find yourself strolling down the boulevard arm-in-arm with a lovely walking companion (and shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of the bloody city), you can pause, look up at the skyline and explain to her why that building is the way it is.